Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 135
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Vuarnet has opened a store in New York. Located at...
Vuarnet has opened a store in New York. Located at 35 Spring Street, close to the Supreme shop in the heart of Little Italy, the 100-square-meter store features its new lifestyle apparel collection, in addition to its traditional line of sunglasses. The apparel line has been developed in collaboration with ...
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Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German...
Schuhe24.de, a company founded and run by Dominik Benner, a German shoe retailer who was formerly a member of ANWR's supervisory board, aims to diversify from footwear by entering the sporting goods and fashion sectors. A new internet portal, Sportmarken24.de, was launched in February. It is managed by Benner's wife, Valeska ...
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Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that...
Adidas said it was made aware on June 26 that an unauthorized party had gained access to customer information from its e-commerce platform in the U.S. A preliminary investigation indicates that a few million records were stolen including contact information, user names and encrypted passwords, but there was no evidence ...
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Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test...
Foot Locker has announced that it is about to test a new retail format called Power Store. The information has been released by the retailer's senior management during a conversation with financial analysts, according to reports by Fashion Network. The new format is supposed to offer customers an immersive experience ...
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Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns...
Kasper Rorsted, the Adidas Group's chief executive, has expressed concerns about potential over-commercialization of football and dilution of the game's quality, due to an increasing number of competitions and participants. In an interview with Kicker, a German football magazine, he said that Fifa's decision to increase the number of teams ...
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Sportsworld Cruquius is to be taken over at the start...
Sportsworld Cruquius is to be taken over at the start of October by Intersport Twinsport, the largest Intersport member in the Netherlands, Sport Partner reports. The store of about 6,000 square meters is one of the five megastores run by Sportsworld, which was launched by Inge van Kemenade as a ...
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Intersport opened its first fitness park in Germany on June,...
Intersport opened its first fitness park in Germany on June, 28. The German voluntary group opened it in Kiel in cooperation with Intersport Knudsen, the group's local retail partner, and with Puma and the city of Kiel. Other sponsors and partners are AOK NordWest, the German insurance company, and Kompan, ...
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Lululemon opened on June 1st its first flagship store in...
Lululemon opened on June 1st its first flagship store in Sweden, in a popular shopping district in the middle of Stockholm. Like the company's other locations around the world, the store space of about 200 square meters will be used to sell the company's clothing and as a yoga studio.
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Adidas has launched the AM4LA shoe, the latest release from...
Adidas has launched the AM4LA shoe, the latest release from its AM4 (Adidas Made For) series. The shoe, which is made at Adidas' Speedfactory facility in Atlanta, this time utilizes yarns derived from marine plastic recovered from coastal areas. The AM4LA, tailored to the streets of Los Angeles, follows the ...
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Adidas has announced the extension of its partnership with Uefa...
Adidas has announced the extension of its partnership with Uefa through 2021, including its Champions League, its Super Cup, its Youth League and its Futsal Champions League. The Three Stripes has supplied the match ball for Uefa's tournaments since 2001.
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Adidas will replace Nike as the sponsor of the Nevada...
Adidas will replace Nike as the sponsor of the Nevada Wolf Pack athletic teams at the University of Nevada in Reno
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Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have announced the return...
Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have announced the return for the second consecutive year of Run for the Oceans, a running initiative to raise awareness of the threat of marine plastic pollution, from June 8 to July 8. Adidas and Parley will be hosting a series of runs in ...
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Burton is opening new stores in Munich, Innsbruck and Annecy,...
Burton is opening new stores in Munich, Innsbruck and Annecy, after opening a new one in Prague in April
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Reischmann, a German sports retailer based in Ravensburg, finished restructuring...
Reischmann, a German sports retailer based in Ravensburg, finished restructuring its big retail store, covering five floors, and reopened it in May. On the ground floor, Reischmann offers training and running products as well as lifestyle-sneakers for men. The first floor is used for the running, fitness, beachwear and winter ...
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Decathlon is taking part in the development of My Cardinet,...
Decathlon is taking part in the development of My Cardinet, a shopping center due to open around the end of this year in Paris, where the French sports retailer has taken up a space of 1,500 square meters. The shopping center in the north-eastern area of Cardinet-Batignolles covers more than ...
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Zalando plans to expand into Ireland and the Czech Republic,...
Zalando plans to expand into Ireland and the Czech Republic, which may be followed by websites in Portugal and other European countries
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Footpatrol, the iconic sneaker store owned by the JD Sports...
Footpatrol, the iconic sneaker store owned by the JD Sports Fashion group, is opening a second store in Paris, in the Marais district. Footpatrol has turned into a sneaker destination in Soho in London since it opened its original store in 2002 and then moved to its current location on ...
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Padel Nuestro, a major Spanish retailer of padel tennis products,...
Padel Nuestro, a major Spanish retailer of padel tennis products, is entering the Portuguese market with the opening of three stores in Guimaraes, Porto and Lisbon. Actually, it already opened a store on the Portuguese island of Madeira in 2016. The chain already has 40 stores in operations, most of ...
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Endurance Shop has announced that 32 of its stores, corresponding...
Endurance Shop has announced that 32 of its stores, corresponding to around 60 percent of its franchisees, have joined a partnership project with Go Sport that will see them transformed into “Endurance Shop by Go Sport,” the banner of the new project. The 32 stores have an average turnover of ...
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Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in...
Adidas and Skechers face a trial on June 4 in the U.S. District Court in Portland over the alleged copying of the German brand's iconic Stan Smith shoe. A few days ago, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction barring Skechers from selling its Onix shoe, but it ...
